I think maybe he thought you meant put a layer between cassandra internal communication. There's no problem balancing client connections with haproxy, we've been pushing several billion requests per month through haproxy to cassandra.
we use mode tcp balance leastconn server local 127.0.0.1:12350 check so basically just a connect based check, and it works fine -Anthony On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:27:26AM -0700, Mark wrote: > On 8/28/10 11:20 AM, Benjamin Black wrote: > >no and no. > > > >On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Mark<static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I will be loadbalancing between nodes using HAProxy. Is this > >> recommended? > >> > >>Also is there a some sort of ping/health check uri available? > >> > >>Thanks > >> > any reason on why loadbalancing client connections using HAProxy isnt > recommended? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anthony Molinaro <antho...@alumni.caltech.edu>
